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A High Level Visual Language for Spatial Data Management

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Visual Information and Information Systems (VISUAL 1999)

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In this paper, we present a visual language dedicated to spatial data called Lvis. This language has been defined as an extension of the Cigales visual language based on the Query-By-Example principle. The language is based on predefined icons modelling spatial objects and operators that are used to build a visual query. The visual query is then translated into the host language of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A major problem of such a language is that visual queries are generally ambiguous because of multiple interpretation of the visual representation. We first present a brief state of the art of languages dedicated to GIS and then formally define our visual language. The global architecture of the system is described. We then focus on visual ambiguities and propose a model of detection and resolution of these ambiguities.

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  1. Laboratoire d.Ingénierie des Systèmes d’Information, INSA & UCBL Lyon, F-69 621, Villeurbanne

    Marie-Aude Aufaure-Portier & Christine Bonhomme

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  1. Marie-Aude Aufaure-Portier
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  1. Computer Science Department, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Dionysius P. Huijsmans

  2. Research Institute Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Arnold W. M. Smeulders

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Aufaure-Portier, MA., Bonhomme, C. (1999). A High Level Visual Language for Spatial Data Management. In: Huijsmans, D.P., Smeulders, A.W.M. (eds) Visual Information and Information Systems. VISUAL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1614. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48762-X_41

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